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Genuine Byzantine / Islamic mosaic glass bead, 7-9 century
Genuine Byzantine / Islamic mosaic glass bead, 7-9 century
Genuine Byzantine / Islamic mosaic glass bead, 7-9 century

Genuine Byzantine / Islamic mosaic glass bead, 7-9 century

$ 50.16

Availability: 10 in stock
  • All returns accepted: ReturnsNotAccepted
  • Condition: New
  • Color: Multi-Color
  • Material: Glass

    Description

    Byzantine / Islamic mosaic cane glass bead
    Date: 7- 9 century
    Mosaic cane glass
    Perforated section of premanufactured mosaic cane, consisted  of multiple green and light green single glass canes, placed around yellow in red cane.
    Intact, very good condition.
    Height 15 mm, diameter 9 mm
    For published archaeological examples in museum collections see:
    - Ve´ronique Arveiller-Dulong, Marie-Dominique Nenna.  Les Verres antiques du Musée du Louvre III : Parure, instruments et éléments d’incrustation, Paris, Éditions du Louvre, Somogy, 2011, p. 204- cat.276-4 (with black canes)
    -  V.Kovalevskaya, Komputernaya obrabotka massovogo arhaeologicheskogo materiala is rannesrednevekovih pamyatnikov Evrasii, Moscow, 2000, p.75, p.93 #254
    -  A.Panini, Middle Eastern and Venetian Glass Beads, Skira, 2007, p. 58 #83, p. 88, p. 115